Cell City Analogy - KEY

In a far away city called Grant City, the main export
and production product is the steel widget. Everyone in the town has
something to do with steel widget making and the entire town is designed to
build and export widgets. The town hall has the instructions for widget
making, widgets come in all shapes and sizes and any citizen of Grant can get
the instructions and begin making their own widgets. Widgets are generally produced
in small shops around the city, these small shops can be built by the carpenter's union (whose headquarters are in town hall).

After the widget is constructed, they are placed
on special carts which can deliver the widget anywhere in the city. In
order for a widget to be exported, the carts take the widget to the postal
office, where the widgets are packaged and labeled for export. Sometimes
widgets don't turn out right, and the "rejects" are sent to the scrap
yard where they are broken down for parts or destroyed altogether. The town
powers the widget shops and carts from a hydraulic dam that is in the
city. The entire city is enclosed by a large wooden fence, only the postal
trucks (and citizens with proper passports) are allowed outside the city.

Match the parts of the city (underlined) with the parts of the cell.

1. Mitochondria

__hydraulic dam______

2. Ribosomes

__small shops________

3. Nucleus

__town hall_______

4. Endoplasmic Reticulum

__special carts___

5. Golgi Apparatus

__post office________

6. Protein

______widgets____

7. Cell Membrane

____fence______

8. Lysosomes

_____scrap yard_____

9. Nucleolus

___carpenter's union___

** Create your own analogy of the cell
using a different model. Some ideas might be: a school, a house, a factory,
or anything you can imagine**